version 0.9.4.6
- Fixed argument passing error in lower_tri (thanks to Kurt Hornik)

version 0.9.4.5
- New argument 'bt' implementing Winkler's boost threshold for the Jaro-Winkler distance
- stringdist(a,b,method="qgram") returns correct value when q>nchar(a) (or b). 
  (Thanks to Giora Simchoni). Also affects stringdistmatrix, amatch, seq_dist,
  and seq_distmatrix.
- registered native routines as now recommended by CRAN

version 0.9.4.4
- updated default nr of threads to comply to CRAN policy (thanks to Kurt Hornik).
  The default nr of cores now equals OMP_NUM_THREADS if set. See 
  ?'stringdist-parallelization' for the full policy.

version 0.9.4.2
- bugfix in stringdistmatrix(a): value of p, for jw-distance was ignored
  (thanks to Max Fritsche)
- bugfix in stringdistmatrix(a): Would segfault on q-gram w/input > ~7k strings
  and q>1 (thanks to Connor McKay)
- bugfix in jaccard distance: distance not always correct when passing multiple
  strings (thanks to Robert Carlson)

version 0.9.4.1
- stringdistmatrix(a) now outputs long vectors (issue #45, thanks to Wouter
  Touw).  For stringdistmatrix(a,b) this was already the case, but the length
  of rows and columns remains restricted to 2^31-1 since long input vectors are
  not supported (yet).
- bugfix in osa/dl/lv distances w/unequal edit weights (thanks to Nathalia Potocka)

version 0.9.4
- bugfix: edge case for zero-size for lower tridiagonal dist matrices (caused
  UBSAN to fire, but gave correct results).
- bugfix in jw distance: not symmetric for certain cases (thanks to github user gtumuluri)

version 0.9.3
- new function for tokenizing integer sequences: seq_qgrams
- new function for matching integer sequences: seq_amatch
- new functions computing distances between integer sequences: seq_dist, seq_distmatrix
- q-gram based distances are now always 0 when q=0 (used to be Inf if at least
  one of the arguments was not the empty string)
- stringdist, stringdistmatrix now emit warning when presented with 'list' argument
- small c-side code optimizations
- bugfix in dl, lv, osa distance: weights were not taken into account properly
  (thanks to Zach Price)

version 0.9.2
- Update  fixing some errors (missing documentation, tests) in the 0.9.1 release.
- Fixed a few possible memory leaks.

version 0.9.1
- Argument 'useNames' of 'stringdistmatrix' now accepts 'none', 'strings', and 'names'
- New function 'stringsim' computes string similarities between 0 and 1 based on 'stringdist'
- Calling 'stringdistmatrix' with a single argument returns an object of class 'dist'
- Argument 'cluster' to stringdistmatrix is phased out. It is now ignored with a message.
- Specifying 'ncores' was already ignored but now also causes a warning
- internal: rewrite of the R/C interface, saving about 1/3 of C-code, making extending easier
- bugfix in stringdistmatrix: output was transposed when length(a)==1 (Thanks to github user cpoonolly)
- Safer core detection to avoid a failure under Cygwin (thanks to Lauri Koobas)

version 0.9.0
- C-code underlying stringdist and amatch now automatically use multithreading based on openMP. 
  The default number of threads is governed by options('sd_num_thread'). 
- stringdist, stringdistmatrix, amatch and ain gain nthread argument which can
  overwrite the default maximum number of threads.
- Argument 'maxDist' is phased out for 'stringdist' and 'stringdistmatrix'.
  Specifying it causes a message.
- Argument 'ncores' is phased out for 'stringdistmatrix'. It is now ignored and
  specifying it causes a message.
- bugfix in amatch/dl. In certain cases, the best match went undetected.
- Documentation improved and rearranged with string metrics, encoding, and
  parallelization now documented as separate topics.

version 0.8.2
- Fixed a few warnings issued by the CLANG compiler (thanks to Brian Ripley).
  This fixes a bug in amatch/jaccard
- Fixed a bug in stringdist/osa, dl: NA incorectly returned (thanks to Lauri
  Koobas).

version 0.8.1
- stringdistmatrix returns dimensionless matrix when both arguments have length
  zero (thanks to Richie Cotton)
- stringdistmatrix gains argument 'useNames' (thanks to Richie Cotton)
- Package now 'Imports' parallel rather than 'Depends' on it.
- bugfix in optimal string alignment distance: the nr of transpositions was
  sometimes overcounted (thanks to Frank Binder)
- rearranged the documentation.

version 0.8.0
- Added soundex-based string distance (thanks to Jan van der Laan)
- New function 'phonetic' translates strings to phonetic codes using soundex
  (thanks to Jan van der Laan)
- New function 'printable_ascii' detects non-printable ascii or non-ascii
  characters.
- Precision issue: cosine distance between equal strings would be O(1e-16) in
  stead of 0.0 (thanks to Ben Haller).
- Code cleaning: somewhat better performance when maxDist is unspecified in
  stringdist. It remains deprecated.
- Row names in the output array of 'qgrams' are now in system native encoding
  (used to be utf8 for all systems).
- updated CITATION with page number info as the R Journal is now out.

version 0.7.3
- bugfix in jw-distance: out-of-range access in C-code caused R to crash in
  some cases (thanks to Carol Gan)
- bugfix in dl distance: in some cases, distances could be one unit too high.
- Updated CITATION file: paper to appear in The R Journal vol 6 (2014).
- Some updates in documentation.

version 0.7.2
- function 'qgrams' gains .list argument
- bugfix in multicore option of stringdistmatrix
- bugfix in substitution weight of DL-distance (undercounted when w4 != 1 in
  some cases)
- bugfix in dl.c: C-function read outside of array. 

version 0.7.0
- added useBytes option: up to ~3-fold speed gain at the cost of possible
  encoding-dependent results.
- new memory allocation method for q-grams increases speed between ~5% and ~30%
  depending on q and input string.
- function 'qgrams' gains useNames option.
- jaro-winkler distance gains weight argument.
- C-code optimization in edit-based distances:  10~20% speed increase depending
  on input.
- bugfix in amatch: sometimes NA was erroneously returned.
- bugfix in amatch/lcs: hamming distance method was called erroneously.

version 0.6.1
- bugfix in parallel version of stringdistmatrix: parameter p was not passed
  (thanks to Ricardo Saporta)
- bugfix in lv/osa/dl: maxDist ignored in certain cases

version 0.6.0
- added amatch function: approximate matching version of 'match'
- added ain function: approximate matching version of '%in%'
- qgrams now accepts arbitrary number of arguments. Outputs array, not table
- added cosine distance
- added Jaccard distance
- added Jaro and Jaro-Winkler distances
- small performance tweeks in underlying C code
- Edge case in stringdistmatrix: output is now always of class matrix
- Default maxDist is now Inf (this is only to make it more intuitive and does
  not break previous code)
- BREAKING CHANGE: output -1 is replaced by Inf for all distance methods


version 0.5.0
- added qgram counting function 'qgrams'
- faster edge case handling in osa method.
- edge case in lv/osa/dl methods: distance returned length(b) in stead of -1
  when length(a) == 0, maxDist < length(b).
- bugfix in lv/osa/dl method: maxDist returned when length(a) > maxDist > 0
  (thanks to Daniel Reckhard).
- Hamming distance (method='h') now returns -1 for strings of unequal lengts
  (used to emit error).
- added longest common substring distance (method='lcs').
- added qgram distance method.
- stringdistmatrix gains cluster argument.

version 0.4.2
- Fix in error message for hamming distance
- Workaround for system-dependent translation of utf8 NA characters

version 0.4.0
- First release
